Some scenario paintball players crave military-styled paintball guns. These are markers used for scenario paintball games, tactical missions, and sniping.
I’ve noticed that many military paintball guns are made by a company called Real Action Paintball, so I researched Real Action Paintball today, and in particular, its popular RAP4 paintball marker.
Without realizing it, I had discussed Real Action Paintball products on Paintball Guns before (Heavy Duty Paintball Gun and Tippmann HK MP5).
Real Action Paintball has some great paintball gun models, especially for scenario paintball players.
RAP4 Marker
Real Action Paintball’s signature marker is the RAP4, which is identical to the legendary M4 rifle used by SWAT Teams and the U.S. Military.
The RAP4 uses .40 or .43 caliber paintballs encased in metal or plastic shells. The RAP4 automatically ejects the shells similar to a real M4 rifle.
The RAP4 can be fired 50 times without using more than 0.4 oz of CO2, which means it not only looks real, but you can shoot without having to reload CO2 all the time, which would reduce the realistic experience.
Here are a few of the RAP4’s features:
* Adjustable for semi or fully automatic fire
* Shell casing ejected after each shot
* Clip-fed 20 round magazine.
* Low, consistent pressure operation
* Flash-hider type muzzle break
* Low gas consumption
* Can be fully submerged in water without harm.
* Velocity 250 to 450 fps (adjustable)
* Simple to operate & easy to maintain
Needless to say, I am impressed by the RAP4 marker.
It's hard to believe that Planet Eclipse already released their 5th generation paintball gun, the Ego 9. In 2004, the first Eclipse Ego debuted and captured the attention of most professional players and high-end gun users. Planet Eclipse built a gun around weight, air efficiency, size, ergonomics, and accuracy. Over the last 4 years, Planet Eclipse has been making some very aggressive moves in the high-end paintball gun market. The Ego came in and swept away "old technology" in paintball.
Right now the leading manufacturers in the high-end gun market are Dye/Proto (DM9/PM8), Smart Parts (Shocker), and Planet Eclipse (Ego). Say goodbye to WDP (Angels) and WGP (Autocockers), they will soon become antiques. The Eclipse Ego can be partially blamed for this but good riddance. Planet Eclipse has been building their guns around the same solid foundations of reliability, performance, light-weight'ness and simplicity. You can expect the same features, and more, with the new Ego 9.
